The MiG-29 hit the ground beside the runway. Kvochur landed a mere 30 m (98 ft) from the wreckage, the ejection seat impacting right next to him.

Arun A. K. praises the peninsular history of India’s early medieval period by Anirudh Kanisetti....

This technique for measuring distance involves some gut-level estimation, but it's pretty easy. You just have to guess—or know—the size of an object in the distance. If you find yourself estimating distances often, you may want to look up the typical sizes…

Ivy is an interpreter for an APL-like language.

3D Printed Bluetooth Headphones



Want to build yourself an awesome sounding, decent looking pair of bluetooth headphones? You've come to the right place!

Figure is a daily logic puzzle game, free to play right in your browser. Clear all the tiles before running out of moves!

A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.

If there’s one thing that’s cheaper than building a new fab, it’s expanding an existing one. Intel’s Oregon D1 facility has been the hub of all of its technology advancements over the past 20 years…

Sandboxing build systems has never been easier

"This is the first book that promises to tell the deep, dark secrets of computer arithmetic, and it delivers in spades. It contains every trick I knew plus many, many more. A godsend for library developers, compiler writers, and lovers of elegant hacks, it…

The Japanese define quality in two ways — atarimae hinshitsu and miryokuteki hinshitsu. Understanding the difference between them is the key to building products that users love.

I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”. I saw the cast details and I found a face and a name I didn’t recognize. Finding out about this guy led me to a whole new world of how so many young…

Commit comments no longer appear in the pull request timeline

Update: Follow up article by einarmagnus

In a startling disruption of the space-time continuum — and a violation of the basic maxim of publishing that nothing is ever on time — the publication date of the 2nd edition of my book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software was bumped…

I don’t archive data very often but when I do it must be for a very important one. On the other hand, I somewhat don’t trust “cloud” providers and would avoid them as much as I can since my paranoid level is kinda high.
And just like everyone else, I run…

A list of small internet startups built by solo developers or tiny teams which can be used as alternatives to big tech/VC-funded startups. Choosing these alternatives helps their founders make money to live their lives and focus on working on their products.